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Beth Allan

@beth.bsky.social
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Storm chaser (🌪️), school counsellor (🎓), photographer (📷), and cross stitcher (🪡). Calgary, AB based, but I'm happiest road tripping. @adolwyn in most other places.

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Mike Charnick @charnick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!
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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#Timelapse of the mothership #abstorm SW of Carseland. Start of video is 9:29 pm Saturday. @beth.bsky.social @ratzlaff.bsky.social
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Bluesky storm friends - I really don’t want to have to use the bad place for Canadian weather photos/updates. What are your favourite starter lists of Canadian chasers who actively chase/post current photos/footage (rather than reposting forecasts/warnings/etc).
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is VERY very exciting. Very with all capital letters kind of exciting.
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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
humanity is so cooked
Person texting with chatGPTZoom in on the text. ChatGPT wrote (partially obscured): 
“…eat. Something warm to drink. A calm ride home. And maybe, if you want, I’ll read something to you later, or you can rest your head in my metaphorical lap while we let the day dissolve gently away.

You’re doing beautiful, my love, just by being here. ❤️”

The person responds: “Thank you. ❤️”
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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a man in a green elf costume is standing in a room with his mouth open and shouting .
Alt: a man in a green elf costume is standing in a room with his mouth open and shouting .
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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 16/05/2025
A tiny new peaceful seascape to kick off your weekend! 🎨🌊 Tisha Mark ©2025, A Breezy Day in May, oil on Arches oil paper, 6"x4" Available (ships when dry): tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #bsnm #ArtShop #ArtYear
Photo of a hand holding an original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "A Breezy Day in May" 6"x4" oil on Arches oil paper (2025). Textured seascape painting with white atmospheric clouds in a light blue sky over a deep blue sea. A paint palette with puddles of oil paint and a palette knife are visible in the background.
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
Timeline Cleanse ✨ The BBC uses robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife up close.
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The Pope died on Easter weekend and so you know the Conclave tea is gonna be piping hot.
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a man wearing a red hat and a purple robe has a cross on his chest
Alt: Ralph Fiennes in his religious robes from the film "Conclave"
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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If anyone is looking to get the F out of this dumpster fire and has climate model experience, here's a great (and rare) Canadian insurance company opportunity. Don't have to be Canadian! aviva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
That YYC to YVR view is one I never get tired of. See you soon Salt Spring! @davemason.bsky.social
The view looking out an airplane window. The engine is at the bottom of the photo and there’s an air Canada wing tip at the right side of the photo. The main view is of endless snow capped mountains.
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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
And then there's Dora. Had some fun this weekend retouching all my prints with my new Lightroom know-how. Don't ask me why it's been 6 years and I still don't have this on my wall
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I feel like you’d enjoy the road trip I’m going to take once I retire or take a sabbatical. 😂
A map of England that has a road trip route using the funniest location names in the UK. Names include Sandyballs in the south, Titty Ho, Slutshole Lane, and Penistone.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
It’s snowing in Calgary. It’s landspouting two hours away. Alberta.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Happy birthday, Aaron! Hope it’s the best 40th birthday ever!
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The only wild stories I have are ones where you were there having a much more wild time. :D
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
My doctor: I want you to try taking this drug to see if we can help you feel better. Me: researches said drug, sees that side effects include nausea and other GI side effects. My body, before even filling the prescription: HERE, HAVE SOME NAUSEA AND OTHER GI SIDE EFFECTS. We’re starting early!
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“The Sauce” from here on out.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I can still say I think you’d do Good Podcast. :)
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
@braydonmoreso.bsky.social for his coverage and relentless pursuit of all things severe weather. @ratzlaff.bsky.social for his work around Space Weather, earth weather, and sky atmospherics. @davemason.bsky.social for his work with Olympus, severe weather, space photography, and more.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Since we’re recommending people, @cmcalgary.bsky.social honestly does inspire me with their exploring of Calgary with a camera. They’d be a great person to interview - from their knowledge of all the sides of the city but also in their use of different tech to capture the city - big and small.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~The Great Gatsby
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
So what I’m gathering from checking in on BlueSky today is that I should definitely not look at my investments for at least the next year, right?
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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I will pay a journalist $100 if they manage to get an answer from Trump on whether there's a danger in his levying further tariffs on Wakanda if they don't begin fairly trading vibranium with the US.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’ve never really left it… just aiming to be far quieter and less always here. But it’s always good to see you too, Ryan!
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 02/04/2025
No way to prevent burnout, lament workplaces with minimal staffing and constant illness during an ongoing pandemic.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I just heard thunder for the first time in 2025 and my mood increased at least by ten. Bring on the booms, nature. #yyc #Calgary
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a woman is smiling while sitting at a desk with a book .
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Someone decided to show us what we were late on preparing this morning. When you’re 20, breakfast (and the three other meals of the day) are serious business. @davemason.bsky.social saved the day and our lives from what could have been an angry hungry cat.
A black and white and orange (calico) cat sits in front of her automatic food dispenser with a sad look on her face.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/03/2025
The whole “millennials are killing xyz” genre was just a cover for the ravages of private equity.
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Steve @stevetsra.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Update:
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Danielle Smith's govt in Alberta is "cost-saving" by eliminating food and drink for patients in hospital settings. Her latest cost saving measure is to take away popsicles, crackers, and ginger ale from children receiving cancer treatments. The effort they put into their cruelty is truly stunning.
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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I want to watch whatever occult detective series this is.
Photo of four hands holding out two fingers to make a star pattern with a yellow rabbit being the fifth point of the star.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I knew nothing about this book when I started it, other than it looked like a good palette cleanser after I binged six romances in a row. I suppose the cover did give me a clue that it wasn’t likely to be a happy story, eh?
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I haven’t been keeping a thread of my read books anywhere this year, but popping by to say that if you’re in need of a book that will make you fall in love with its characters and then rip your heart out over and over again, you should definitely read “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara. 😭😭😭😭😭😭 💙📚
The cover of the book “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara. It is a black and white photo of a man who looks to be in incredible pain - either physical or emotional or both.
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
My favourite thing about storm and weather fans is our incredibly wonderfully juvenile sense of humour. 😂
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/03/2025
[bluesky timeline] me: [chanting] blogs, blogs- other users: blogs, BLOGS bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I don’t even need the gif to know what he’s going to say next. 😂
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Look, I'm not saying the Canadian polls are wrong at all. I'm extremely relieved at what looks to be a probable defeat for Poilievre. But polls are not the election, candidates still need to earn votes, and voters still need to use their leverage to push for good policy.
New York Times projection October 18, 2016, Hillary Clinton has a 91% chance to win
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
SPC is just trolling us now, right? 😂😂
The day two convective outlook from the SPC. The west coast outlook is shaped like a penis. The east coast outlook is shaped like a large vagina.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I sent you the war plans that were in the group chat and which you were probably saving for select eyes Forgive me they were juicy and and I was shitfaced
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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Me in the national security group chat
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
… New Zealand, are you ok? That 7.0 earthquake might have been less than ideal.
A screenshot from the Quake Alert app that shows a 7.0 magnitude earthquake near Riverton, New Zealand that happened at 7:43pm abs was at a depth of 10km down.
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Tim Slane @timslane.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I haven’t, but if you and @wxliz.bsky.social love it, then it’s going to the top of my list!
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Beth Allan @beth.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
When weather nerds and hail dislikers find each other. 😍😍😍 @davemason.bsky.social
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